As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

show that flexibility has a substantial impact on the wage distribution but not on the unemployment rate. We comment on the …

26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for …

. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we …

large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant … cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …